The pandemic’s impact on elective procedures and reimbursement rendered price reductions from vendors on medical devices and supplies inadequate to improve hospitals’ economic health. Symmetry ...

Detroit Receiving hospital stopped surveillance of most surgical site infections due to staff cuts in 2018, including for patients exposed to dirty surgical instruments, according to a report released ...

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment completed its investigation into Denver-based Porter Adventist Hospital April 17. In its report, the CDPHE found the hospital failed to ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital (RMH) is now fully compliant with the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) standards of patient care. It comes after a report showed the ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Nearly 1% of all surgical instruments in hospitals nationwide are rejected before they get to the operating room. They’re screened for blemishes left over from the sterilization ...

Fayetteville | Officials at a North Carolina hospital say about 160 patients may have been exposed to staph infection because surgical instruments weren't properly sterilized. Officials at Cape Fear ...

State inspectors have revealed that UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital’s week-long shutdown of nonemergency surgeries came after they found dozens of contaminated surgical instruments caked ...

Federal health officials are investigating allegations of dirty surgical instruments and other quality problems at the Detroit Medical Center in response to allegations made last week by physicians.

Twenty-one patients underwent operations at a Welsh hospital in which unsterilised surgical tools were used, in a huge blunder. WalesOnline can reveal the repeated use of unsterilised instruments in ...